Evolution of Operating Systems usage
I needed this statistics and I'm sure they're somewhere, but I don't know where. So, I went to Wikipedia which has the updated numbers but not something showing the progress. Fortunately, wiki's have revision history, so it was fairly easy to compile what I wanted. Here it is, for the sake of others (or me) not needing to go to the same hassle again.
Wikipedia page used as a source (by using several different revisions of this document)
Q4 2004 - Windows 96.34%; Apple 3.25%; Linux 0.29% Q1 2005 - Windows 96.21%; Apple 3.40%; Linux 0.29% Q2 2005 - Windows 96.10%; Apple 3.50%; Linux 0.31% Q3 2005 - Windows 96.03%; Apple 3.55%; Linux 0.32% Q4 2005 - Windows 95.50%; Apple 4.11%; Linux 0.30% Q1 2006 - Windows 95.29%; Apple 4.30%; Linux 0.31% Q2 2006 - Windows 95.08%; Apple 4.40%; Linux 0.41% Q3 2006 - Windows 95.01%; Apple 4.45%; Linux 0.44% Q4 2006 - Windows 94.10%; Apple 5.41%; Linux 0.38% Q1 2007 - Windows 93.17%; Apple 6.22%; Linux 0.45% Q2 2007 - Windows 92.78%; Apple 6.23%; Linux 0.74% Sep. 2007 - Windows 89.10%; Apple 4.00%; Linux 0.81% Oct. 2007 - Windows 91.76%; Apple 4.46%; Linux 0.81% Nov. 2007 - Windows 91.45%; Apple 4.48%; Linux 0.81% Dec. 2007 - Windows 92.88%; Apple 4.32%; Linux 0.88% Jan. 2008 - Windows 91.79%; Apple 4.12%; Linux 0.76% Feb. 2008 - Windows 92.13%; Apple 4.34%; Linux 0.77% Apr. 2008 - Windows 93.94%; Apple 4.47%; Linux 0.81% May 2008 - Windows 93.98%; Apple 4.39%; Linux 0.83% Jun. 2008 - Windows 94.06%; Apple 4.33%; Linux 0.89% Jul. 2008 - Windows 93.64%; Apple 4.31%; Linux 0.90% Aug. 2008 - Windows 91.95%; Apple 4.49%; Linux 0.96% Sep. 2008 - Windows 93.61%; Apple 4.86%; Linux 1.04% Oct. 2008 - Windows 90.40%; Apple 5.50%; Linux 1.16% Nov. 2008 - Windows 90.50%; Apple 5.41%; Linux 1.16% Dec. 2008 - Windows 90.50%; Apple 5.24%; Linux 1.16% Jan. 2009 - Windows 91.10%; Apple 4.81%; Linux 1.02% Feb. 2009 - Windows 91.03%; Apple 4.77%; Linux 1.04% Mar. 2009 - Windows 90.99%; Apple 4.81%; Linux 1.05% Apr. 2009 - Windows 91.22%; Apple 4.95%; Linux 1.13% May 2009 - Windows 91.30%; Apple 5.01%; Linux 1.12% Jun. 2009 - Windows 91.24%; Apple 5.06%; Linux 1.12% Jul. 2009 - Windows 93.18%; Apple 4.59%; Linux 1.05% Aug. 2009 - Windows 93.06%; Apple 4.59%; Linux 0.94% Sep. 2009 - Windows 92.77%; Apple 4.59%; Linux 0.95% Oct. 2009 - Windows 92.52%; Apple 5.87%; Linux 0.96% Nov. 2009 - Windows 90.52%; Apple 6.48%; Linux 1.00% Dec. 2009 - Windows 90.22%; Apple 6.57%; Linux 1.04% Jan. 2010 - Windows 92.02%; Apple 5.79%; Linux 1.08% Feb. 2010 - Windows 91.60%; Apple 6.58%; Linux 1.12% Mar. 2010 - Windows 91.34%; Apple 6.63%; Linux 1.14% Apr. 2010 - Windows 90.95%; Apple 6.61%; Linux 1.15% May 2010 - Windows 90.88%; Apple 6.67%; Linux 1.22% Jun. 2010 - Windows 89.53%; Apple 6.93%; Linux 1.31% Aug. 2010 - Windows 88.92%; Apple 7.72%; Linux 1.33% Sep. 2010 - Windows 88.66%; Apple 7.82%; Linux 1.34% Oct. 2010 - Windows 88.40%; Apple 8.22%; Linux 1.50% Nov. 2010 - Windows 88.01%; Apple 8.48%; Linux 1.53% Dec. 2010 - Windows 87.82%; Apple 8.87%; Linux 1.58% Jan. 2011 - Windows 87.54%; Apple 8.97%; Linux 1.64% Feb. 2011 - Windows 87.36%; Apple 9.27%; Linux 1.66% Mar. 2011 - Windows 87.15%; Apple 9.27%; Linux 1.82% Apr. 2011 - Windows 87.00%; Apple 10.44%; Linux 1.88% May 2011 - Windows 86.58%; Apple 10.34%; Linux 1.95% Jun. 2011 - Windows 86.00%; Apple 10.05%; Linux 2.15% Jul. 2011 - Windows 83.30%; Apple 10.26%; Linux 2.07% Aug. 2011 - Windows 82.58%; Apple 10.91%; Linux 2.25% Sep. 2011 - Windows 82.41%; Apple 11.10%; Linux 2.41% Oct. 2011 - Windows 86.15%; Apple 10.37%; Linux 2.53% Nov. 2011 - Windows 85.8%; Apple 10.7%; Linux 3.0% Dec. 2011 - Windows 80.83%; Apple 11.20%; Linux 3.00% Jan. 2012 - Windows 78.66%; Apple 13.28%; Linux 3.90% Feb. 2012 - Windows 82.11%; Apple 10.61%; Linux 2.82% Mar. 2012 - Windows 73.38%; Apple 15.87%; Linux 5.05% Apr. 2012 - Windows 82.21%; Apple 9.89%; Linux 3.05% May 2012 - Windows 83.07%; Apple 12.28%; Linux 3.60% Jun. 2012 - Windows 78.89%; Apple 15.47%; Linux 3.95% Jul. 2012 - Windows 79.88%; Apple 13.99%; Linux 4.05% Aug. 2012 - Windows 79.21%; Apple 14.55%; Linux 3.90% Set. 2012 - Windows 75.88%; Apple 14.87%; Linux 3.81% Oct. 2012 - Windows 82.76%; Apple 12.58%; Linux 4.13% Nov. 2012 - Windows 81.74%; Apple 12.55%; Linux 3.93% Dec. 2012 - Windows 81.54%; Apple 12.56%; Linux 3.92% Jan. 2013 - Windows 80.84%; Apple 13.41%; Linux 3.97% Feb. 2013 - Windows 75.89%; Apple 15.99%; Linux 5.47% Mar. 2013 - Windows 78.85%; Apple 14.81%; Linux 4.59% Apr. 2013 - Windows 79.01%; Apple 14.25%; Linux 4.66% May 2013 - Windows 80.34%; Apple 12.89%; Linux 5.29% June 2013 - Windows 73.49%; Apple 17.27%; Linux 6.68% July 2013 - Windows 75.67%; Apple 16.05%; Linux 5.57% Aug. 2013 - Windows 74.97%; Apple 16.12%; Linux 6.65% Sep. 2013 - Windows 72.32%; Apple 15.69%; Linux 6.80% Oct. 2013 - Windows 72.02%; Apple 15.85%; Linux 7.06% Nov. 2013 - Windows 77.90%; Apple 12.96%; Linux 5.35% Feb. 2015 - Windows 60.27%; Apple 17.70%; Linux 15.05% Jun. 2015 - Windows 41.48%; Apple 35.75%; Linux 16.19% Dec. 2015 - Windows 48.70%; Apple 16.33%; Linux 28.40% May 2016 - Windows 45.00%; Apple 16.43%; Linux 33.15% Dec. 2016 - Windows 38.31%; Apple 17.63%; Linux 39.38%
(I intend to update this article from time to time - hopefully at least once per month.)
Thank you for your hard work, I've put this in a gDocs and I see quite some bigs jumps, take a look: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/oimg?key=0AllMF17g1jJTdFB4d1NjM3J2c3J2c2FiRUs3NVhmSVE&oid=2&zx=vezkhqu0actb
ReplyDeleteNice graph, thanks for sharing :-)
ReplyDeleteWell yes, we do see quite some big jumps, but what jumps to the eye is the more or less steady rise of Mac and Linux...